1. Title: Smories2. Link: http://www.smories.com/
3. Target Audience: Children of all ages
4. Grade: Pre-school and up
5. Difficulty Level
The pictures of the different videos available are a little small but there are many choices. Anyone can click on a picture and a child will start reading a story. There is also an Iphone and Ipad application for this which is very easy to navigate.
6. Customized
Any child can watch and upload a video to this website of them reading a story. There are many different ways and devices Smories can be on.
- Pros
- audio books for all students can support fluency, expression, and comprehension
- By children watching videos, they begin to pair audio and vocabulary in the stories to visual actions and pictures
- makes reading fun by being able to share yourself reading and see how you read to others
- some stories have captions where the children can follow along
- Cons
- many children would not want to upload themselves reading a story because they are shy or not confident in reading aloud
- some stories are at higher levels of understanding and the stories are not categorized
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